Oh you know what else I can do? I can make 5,000 character posts. Not 500, 5,000. Sure, that makes it more of a "blogging service" than "microblogging" service, but you know what, I don't care.

And you know what I'm gonna do? Make a long post, because I fucken /can/.

Sure, people might not like this long post, but you know what, maybe Gargron should collapse long posts by default like users have asked for. But of course, "what is input validation" even? What is "listening to your users" even?

Now onto my point:

Without users, your vision doesn't mean shit. Your ideas are nothing more than just that: ideas. As Pleroma improves, Mastodon will be left behind in the dust, simply because Gargron refused to listen to his users and their ideas, with his self-admitted bias against ideas he didn't come up with. Simple things, like it's too resource-hungry, it's too slow, nothing is configurable, etc. Gargron decides everything with Mastodon. Not so with Pleroma. The Pleroma using community decides.

When the community decides what goes into Pleroma, both the community /and/ Pleroma win. When Gargron decides what goes into Mastodon, only Gargron wins.

Just think about that.

As more and more people try out Pleroma, more and more people are going to work on it. It's only going to get better. Mastodon will stagnate as soon as Gargron runs out of ideas, because he doesn't really want to listen to others. It's "his" social media. He only cares about taking on Twitter on his terms. It's an ego trip for him, plain and simple. You are as much of a product as you were for Twitter, except you serve the ego of a man instead of a company's bottom line.